This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Is that your washing powder,
Little voice I hear getting louder,
It's one stupid thing to remind me,
Of somebody I thought was behind me,
Yes, they came back, and pushing the knife in,
Slow down, you're caught in a whirlwind,
I will hire a private detective,
Trying to work it out in the end dear,
Hey, don't just stand there,
There's no point in empty hands,
And wheres your boy tonight,
I wonder do you realise,
What you have done,
Cos I'm not pretending,
No more tricks and no more games,
My tail's between my legs now,
Yes, you keep talking and talking,
Looking nice and isn't it boring,
Then somebody else,
Who's wearing your perfume,
Walks by and that really confuses me,
So come back,
Stop pushing the knife in,
Slow down, you're caught in a whirlwind,
I will hire a private detective,
Trying to work it out in the end dear,
Hey, don't just stand there,
There's no point in empty hands,
And wheres your boy tonight,
I wonder do you realise,
What you have done,
Cos I'm not pretending,
No more tricks and no more games,
My tail's between my legs now,
And look at your hair,
Well that's not you,
And you paint your face,
I still see through,
It's just your washing powder,
Like a voice i hear getting louder,
One stupid thing to remind me,
Of somebody i thought was behind me,
Yes, they came back, and pushing the knife in,
Slow down, you're caught in a whirlwind,
I will hire a private detective,
Trying to work it out in the end dear,
Hey, just don't stand there,
There's no point in empty hands,
And wheres your boy tonight,
I wonder do you realise,
What you have done,
Cos I'm not pretending,
No more tricks and no more games,
My tail's between my legs now,
It's just your washing powder,
Little voice i hear getting louder,
One stupid thing to remind me,
Of somebody i thought was behind me,
Little voice I hear getting louder,
It's one stupid thing to remind me,
Of somebody I thought was behind me,
Yes, they came back, and pushing the knife in,
Slow down, you're caught in a whirlwind,
I will hire a private detective,
Trying to work it out in the end dear,
Hey, don't just stand there,
There's no point in empty hands,
And wheres your boy tonight,
I wonder do you realise,
What you have done,
Cos I'm not pretending,
No more tricks and no more games,
My tail's between my legs now,
Yes, you keep talking and talking,
Looking nice and isn't it boring,
Then somebody else,
Who's wearing your perfume,
Walks by and that really confuses me,
So come back,
Stop pushing the knife in,
Slow down, you're caught in a whirlwind,
I will hire a private detective,
Trying to work it out in the end dear,
Hey, don't just stand there,
There's no point in empty hands,
And wheres your boy tonight,
I wonder do you realise,
What you have done,
Cos I'm not pretending,
No more tricks and no more games,
My tail's between my legs now,
And look at your hair,
Well that's not you,
And you paint your face,
I still see through,
It's just your washing powder,
Like a voice i hear getting louder,
One stupid thing to remind me,
Of somebody i thought was behind me,
Yes, they came back, and pushing the knife in,
Slow down, you're caught in a whirlwind,
I will hire a private detective,
Trying to work it out in the end dear,
Hey, just don't stand there,
There's no point in empty hands,
And wheres your boy tonight,
I wonder do you realise,
What you have done,
Cos I'm not pretending,
No more tricks and no more games,
My tail's between my legs now,
It's just your washing powder,
Little voice i hear getting louder,
One stupid thing to remind me,
Of somebody i thought was behind me,
Lyrics submitted by Simnonials, edited by djowhite
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